Robert Louis Stevenson Selected Poems Author:Robert Louis Stevenson The world is so full of a number of things. — I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. — --"Happy Thought" — Robert Louis Stevenson established his reputation with novels such as Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but his poems-especially A Child?s Garden of Verses-achieved popularity too. Here gathe... more »red are works both early and late (including many published posthumously), including excerpts from Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel, and, of course, A Child?s Garden.« less